I’ve been using Evernote for a while to keep track of ideas and notes, but it got a bit unwieldy. I had different notebooks within the app, different tags, and shit that has been growing weeds for a few years.

I looked into things like Notational Velocity but I liked Evernote’s image and iphone stuff a bit more than the very cool and minimal route. (I take a lot of pictures of whiteboards, Evernote helps me search through the text therein… sometimes).

PS. there’s a video at the end of this post… so, there’s that, you know, if you like that sort of thing.

So I came up with a bit of a quick fix and i’ve been using it for the past 4 months. I love it. You’d like to hear it? It goes like this: (more…)

I’ve got an idea percolating here. It sprouted from four things:

1. A conversation my friend Zach and I had where told me the story of a guy he knows who’s super health-nutty… This guy did lots of research and came to the conclusion that the human body was made for sprints, not long distance running.
2. This problem I have at work where there are times of looooooong mediocre-ness and short bursts of ass kicking productivity.
3. Espresso. A small shot packing big impact… on your brain, on your energy, on your motivation, and possibly on your guts.
4. Smoke breaks. I don’t smoke, so I don’t get them.

What if you sprinted at work? What if you had a long day of short sprints broken up with varying breaks? What if you could dive into something completely, abandoned, for 25 minutes straight? (more…)

If there’s one thing knowledge workers, artists, musicians, writers, and producers of any kind want to get better at it’s the creative process. Our technology and culture can make it extremely hard to follow through on great ideas; because there’s just too many great links to click, am I right?

So, in the spirit of passing on some high quality links, here are a few resources that might help you center over your work and fire away. (more…)